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“Ego is the movement of the mind toward objects of perception in the form of grasping, and away from objects in the form of aversion. This fundamentally is all the ego is. This movement of grasping and aversion gives rise to a sense of a separate 'me,' and in turn the sense of 'me' strengthens itself this way.”

Way Giving Mind Form Turns Movement Objects Ego Perception Grasping Aversion

Author:Adyashanti

“In I Praise My Destroyer, Diane Ackerman demonstrates once again her love for the specific language that rises from the juncture of self and the natural world, and her skillful use of that language. Whether she turns her attention to the act of eating an apricot 'the color of shame and dawn,' or to 'the omnipotence of light,' or to grief when 'All the greens of summer have blown apart,' her linking of unique images, her energetic wit and whimsy, her compassionate investment in life, always bring new pleasures and perceptions to the reader.”

“There is no one kind of thing that we 'perceive' but many different kinds, the number being reducible if at all by scientific investigation and not by philosophy: pens are in many ways though not in all ways unlike rainbows, which are in many ways though not in all ways unlike after-images, which in turn are in many ways but not in all ways unlike pictures on the cinema-screen--and so on.”

Ifs Way Kind Different Philosophy Turns Numbers Perception Screens Perceive Cinema Pens Different Kinds Investigation Rainbow

Author:J. L. Austin

“The system of technological production that we have today has been justified in terms of creating more goods to feed more people and to meet more needs. But it actually destroys more of the resources that we need in order to meet those multiple needs. If we shift to an ecological perception, a diversity perception, we realize that some of the instruments of which we are very proud are actually extremely primitive for dealing with nature. To me that is the great lesson of ecological awareness at the turn of the millennium.”

“When you're in the grip of frustration, love can seem pretty much out of the question. Care is going to be a stretch. But appreciation is easy-even if it starts out kind of snide like, "I appreciate the fact I haven't fallen flat on my face ... yet." After a couple of stabs at it, you're going to stumble across one that sincerely touches you. Maybe it's your friends, your partner, your loved ones. One strong dose of appreciation can turn your perceptions around 180 degrees.”

Ifs Kind Facts Seems Care Faces Turns Strong Easy Havens Couple Degrees Perception Appreciate Appreciation Partners Fallen Frustration Flats Loved Ones Sincerely Dose

Author:Doc Childre

“Given its more substantial aim, a judgment is apt only if its constitutive alethic affirmation is not only apt but aptly apt. The subject must attain aptly not only the truth of his affirmation but also its aptness. And that in turn requires not only the proper operation of one's perception, memory, inference, etc., but also that one deploy such competences through competent epistemic risk assessment.”

Ifs Turns Given Memories Risk Subjects Judgment Perception Aim Operations Etc Affirmation Competence Competent Assessment Inference

Author:Ernest Sosa

“Everything looks beautiful. The Book of Shhh says that deliria alters your perception, disables your ability to reason clearly, impairs you from making sound judgments. But it does not tell you this: that love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.”

World Looks Doe Book Reason Whole Beautiful Turns Sound Ability Greater Judgment Perception Whole World Delirium Sound Judgment

Author:Lauren Oliver

“As you inquire into issues and turn judgments around, you come to see that every perceived problem appearing "out there" is really nothing more than a misperception within your own thinking.”

Thinking Problem Turns Issues Judgment Perception Appearing Misperception

Book:Loving What Is: How Four Questions Can Change Your Life

Source: Loving What Is: How Four Questions Can Change Your Life

“Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's capacity for decent behavior seems to vary directly with his perception of others as individual humans with human motives and feelings, whereas his capacity for barbarism seems related to his perception of an adversary in abstract terms, as the embodiment, that is, of some evil design or ideology.”

“Our conceptions of the world affect our perceptions of the world which, in turn, condition the way we subsequently conceive the world.”

World Way Turns Conditions Perception Conception Perception Of The World

Book:Alone with Others: An Existential Approach to Buddhism

Source: Alone with Others: An Existential Approach to Buddhism

“There is evidence that acupuncture influences the production of and distribution of a great many neurotransmitters and neuromodulators, and that this in turn alters the perception of pain.”

Pain Turns Influence Perception Evidence Productions Great Men Distribution Acupuncture Neurotransmitters

Author:David Eisenberg